Watson v. City of Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, under the Pub. Sts. c. 47, § 12, to recover damages for the exclusion of the plaintiff by the school committee from the schools of the defendant city. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The records of the school committee of the defendant city set forth that the plaintiff in 1885 was excluded from the schools “because he was too weak-minded to derive profit from instruction.” He was afterwards taken again on trial for two weeks, and at the end of that time again excluded. The records further recite that “ it appears from the statements of teachers who have observed him, and from the certificates of physicians, that he is so weak in mind as not to derive any marked benefit from instruction, and, further, that he is troublesome to other children, making uncouth noises,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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